Out Campaign

Monday, February 27, 2012

I've just been made aware of a worthwhile project that could use some support from you. Are you familiar with Kickstarter? It's a website that allows individuals to seek funding for projects that they'd like to work on. An award-winning photographer and filmmaker in New York, Chris Johnson, is behind the project. He intends for the book to be a coffee table photo book about atheists, some known and some unknown, and what gives meaning and happiness to their lives.

The list of already confirmed personalities for the book is impressive, and is still growing. Check it out:

Derren Brown, illusionist/mentalist

PZ Myers, evolutionary biologist/blogger

Dr. Daniel Dennett, philosopher/cognitive scientist

Dr. Lawrence M. Krauss, theoretical physicist/author

Matt Dillahunty, host of The Atheist Experience

Dr. Michael Shermer, founder of Skeptic Magazine/author

Rebecca Watson, blogger/speaker

Matthew Chapman, film director/writer

Julia Sweeney, comedian

Dr. Steven Novella, neurologist

Greta Christina, blogger/speaker

Chris Mooney, host of Point of Inquiry/author

Dr. Patricia Churchland, neurophilosopher

Dr. Carolyn Porco, planetary scientist

D.J. Grothe, president, JREF

Beth Presswood & Lynnea Glasser, Godless Bitches podcast

David Silverman, president, American Atheists

Dr. Steven Pinker, cognitive scientist/author

Hemant Mehta, blogger

Brian Dunning, host, Skeptoid podcast

Jessica Ahlquist, First Amendment hero

Roy Speckhardt, executive director, American Humanist Association

The project goal is $95,000. The way Kickstarter works, if the pledged funding does not reach that level, then all donations are cancelled and you will never be charged. The project is only funded if the goal is reached.

Donations come with benefits, also. US$25 gets you a PDF copy of the book. $50 gets you a hardcover copy and the PDF. $100 gets your name mentioned in the book as a supporter, plus the hardcover copy, plus the PDF copy. And so on. A donation of $2,500 gets you or a person you nominate featured in the book yourself (assuming you're an atheist and not a religious person who is backing the book for some reason).